WP7 will quantify and illustrate how TECH4EFFECT technologies and procedures developed in WP2, WP3 and WP4 affect the environmental and socio-economic performance of the whole value chain. Overall and accumulated impacts will be extrapolated to the European scale to contrast the achieved efficiency gains with the goals of 20% reduced production costs, 15% reductions in fuel consumptions, less environmental impacts (soil damage) and 2% increased forest (yield) productivity.

Expected results

Comparison of the environmental and socio-economic performance of the proposed TECH4EFFECT innovations in comparison to traditional value chains. This will provide information on the impacts of the different silvicultural methods and harvesting operations, for example in terms of greenhouse gas emissions, energy use, soil impact, employment, occupational safety, costs and the benefits.

Estimate on the wider potential of the TECH4EFFECT technologies and procedures. This will provide us information on the possible efficiency gains and potential to support a sustainable bioeconomy at the EU regional scale and the whole EU.

The method utilized to quantify these impacts is ToSIA – Tool for Sustainability Impact Assessment; more info under http://tosia.efi.int.